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Westpac faces 23 million breaches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... hinders AUSTRAC's ability to track down the origins of financial transactions, when required to support police investigations." AUSTRAC alleges, among other things, Westpac failed to appropriately assess the online money laundering and terrorism financing ...

AMPFPA selects law firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... cleaner in somebody's office," Macdonald said. The association said Corrs is currently undertaking a range of investigations into members' options and members wishing to be a part of any action taken should register their interest with the fi ...

Culture change must not be a fad: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... insights from our risk culture deep dives, and, wherever possible, reports from Prudential Inquiries and similar investigations." On the back of Byres speech, the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) released an update suite of governance ...

Major super funds caught in fraud scandal

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... involved have been reported to be CMC Markets, IG Markets and CommSec. Australian Federal Police and ASIC conducted investigations into the syndicate's activities for over a year. Working as part of a syndicate, ASIC believes the 21-year-old used ...

AMP hires head of whistleblowing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... managing partner at HPWI. At AMP, Paterson will be responsible for leading whistleblower awareness, training and investigations across the business. AMP chief risk officer Jenny Fagg said: "Risk has been placed at the core of AMP's culture and further ...

ASIC accelerates enforcement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... period last year, just 68 people were banned from providing financial services or credit. ASIC has commenced 77 investigations in the period, with 48 complete. That's up slightly from 67 investigations in the same period last year. ASIC deputy chair ...

AFCA looks to expand senior ranks

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... Investments Ombudsman, and the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. As of June, AFCA has helped launch more than 100 investigations over the last eight months as it received an outpouring of complaints in the aftermath of the Hayne Royal Commission; in ...

350 tax practitioners under investigation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... meet personal tax obligations, four of those with a five year exclusion period," O'Neill said. "And of the eight investigations into non-compliance with CPE requirements, five tax practitioners were issued with suspensions, three with cautions and all ...

ASIC slams consumer credit failures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... enforcement action against some of the entities named in our report." The report has led the corporate regulator to begin investigations into the suspected misconduct of "several entities" in the market, which ASIC has flagged could lead to enforcement ...

Financial scams smash Australia

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... financial scam attempts in 2018, with around half a billion dollars lost. The survey questioned banking fraud risk, investigations and security personnel of eight Australian banks - 43 worldwide - about the threats they faced between 2016 and 2018, and ...